“The United States did not join a joint statement by nearly 50 UN member states condemning Russia’s new threats to strike Kyiv and calls to evacuate foreign embassies.“ Evil Russian bootlickers.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Nothing illustrates the difference between the two parties heading into the midterms better than these 2 clips together of RNC Chair Joe Gruters and Dem nominee James Talarico talking about the senate election in Texas.

Congress should make very clear that anyone participating in this has lost the ability to be in a position of public trust.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

At the Tilden Regional Parks Botanic Garden (Berkeley hills), “sale of California native ferns will take place on Wed May 27 and Wed June 3 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM and on Sat June 6 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.” nativeplants.org

For the first time ever, wind and solar generated more electricity worldwide than gas in April: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

What’s up? California natives in bloom at Tilden Regional Parks Botanic Garden! Entry is free because Californians support their park system. I 💕 this place.

Exclusive: The White House resisted allowing an American doctor exposed to Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of Congo to return to the U.S., according to people familiar, delaying the evacuation and care of the infected American.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. quietly removed the two top leaders of a key preventive services panel last week as he seeks to overhaul its membership.

Paid for this surcharge today - yet another way we’re paying more under this administration. about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

How $40M turned into $1,800 million.

America’s unions are standing with @reiunion.bsky.social workers throughout their boycott of the REI anniversary sale. REI: stop union-busting and reach a fair contract now. Show your solidarity and don’t shop at REI during their anniversary sale through May 25! https://bit.ly/4ugSJ0J

The idea that race and partisanship would be too entangled to identify voting restrictions as racist would have seemed absurd to the authors of the 15th Amendment, given that it was itself adopted at a time of racist partisan disenfranchisement www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Georgia, your voice matters 🗳️ Election Day is here. Make a plan, know your polling place, and exercise your right to vote. Polls are open until 7 PM. Your vote is your power. Find your polling place and voting information here: mvp.sos.ga.gov

DOJ Office of Legal Counsel rule that a sitting president couldn't be indicted for federal crimes. That was born of the same underlying thought: the entanglement between the president personally and the DOJ within the executive branch is too close to set them in opposition to each other. 6/

I’ve been invited to testify on what the House calls “Court Packing: A Threat to SCOTUS’s Legitimacy.” Drawing on research w/ Daphna Renan for our book, Supremacy, Congress has the duty—and all the tools it needs—to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Patty Murray to Blanche: "This is corruption that has never been more blatant. What's happening is you write the check, Trump and his cronies cash it, and American taxpayers who are already being whacked with high prices are gonna foot the bill."

HAPPENING NOW: The 9th Circuit is hearing arguments in the DOJ's request to access California and Oregon's unredacted voter data. The hearing will focus on whether the department has provided a sufficient reason to obtain the information. 📺 Stream below👇 https://bit.ly/3Ry60U2

6️⃣ Independent businesses are hit twice as hard as national chains -- precisely the types of Main Street firms that have the hardest time recovering from economic shocks.

Today I'm publicly releasing a paper that answers that question (download link in the comments) using data on 5.4 million local businesses across the US: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... During the first year of the current administration, ICE raids caused serious economic damage in seven ways:

Tuesday's primary in Georgia features contentious Republican contests for governor and U.S. Senate while Democrats hope an enthusiasm advantage is enough to flip two state supreme court seats. n.pr/4eTWvZ5

At the outset of the crisis, the family had pinned most of their hopes on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the regulatory agency responsible for overseeing oil and gas — including pollution from the industry and plugging old wells... It did not take long for their hopes to transform into anger.

Donald Trump doesn't give a damn that you're paying more at the gas pump. In fact, he expected you to pay MORE.

So backwards

They are raising taxes on electric vehicles but not on gasoline vehicles. It’s bad policy during an energy crisis but also during any other time too.

A NBER working paper co-authored by economist @catiehausman.bsky.social shows that larger oil & gas firms are passing environmental risks on to smaller firms. 🛢️⚠️ The result? #OilWells are left unplugged, leading to: ☠️ Air & water pollution 💥 Explosion risks Read: https://myumi.ch/5wN9A

"I think Big Oil is choosing its governor. They are indicating very clearly which side they're on," said @rlmiller.bsky.social. "They have chosen Becerra as the person who will do their bidding."

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

Chinese EVs Are Landing In Canada. Over Half Of Canadians Would Buy One - InsideEVs insideevs.com/news/795820/...

If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

The president made between $220 million and $750 million worth of securities trades in the first quarter of this year, according to a Reuters analysis.

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) defended his decision to suspend his state’s ongoing primary election to redraw the congressional maps, even after 45,000 ballots had already been cast, saying that discarding those votes was “not a big” deal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today, in the House Natural Resources Committee, I am assessing Secretary Burgum’s priorities—will he choose to maintain the National Parks budget or pay $1B for a golden White House ballroom? We know the American people treasure our National Parks. Does he?

BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court greenlit the GOP's gerrymander, which could hand the party one more red seat, for use in the 2026 midterms. Full story to come.

The Iranian regime has had the upper hand since the moment Trump took the bait his predecessors had all resisted, and attacked Iran. This is the outcome *everyone* who has thought about this scenario over the past two decades has foreseen.

With summer vacations looming and monthly budgets straining, Republicans in Congress just unveiled their latest budget. Their grand plan? $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol $1 billion for Trump's gold-plated ballroom And $0 for your bottom line. I wish I was kidding.

2/ We found at least 79 children hurt by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation blitz. It’s likely a vast underestimate. Kids were at home, sitting in strollers or attending a daytime protest with their parents. Then, chemicals left them gasping for air.

The Virginia supreme court's ruling today was 4-3, a reminder of the importance of state supreme court justices. Two seats on the Georgia supreme court are at stake in... 11 days. boltsmag.org/georgia-supr...

The Virginia Supreme Court has blocked state officials from using a new congressional map approved by voters this year that was poised to help Democrats gain additional seats in the US House. Listen to that and the latest stories on Bloomberg News Now.

The conservative intelligentsia is quietly running seminars to convince judges not to believe climate science, while loudly accusing liberals of a conspiracy to bias judges against the oil industry: www.propublica.org/article/clim... via @abrahm.bsky.social

Clarence Thomas is set to become the second-longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. His legacy is marred by ethics scandals that highlight the lack of accountability for justices. It's past time to reform the Court. bit.ly/42Ql6qg

Here are some California native plants currently in bloom. And we have a ton of native 🐝s in our garden.

Costa Rica passed a law in 2018 that required electric utilities to install fast chargers every 50 miles on national highways. Tax breaks have made Costa Rica a pioneer in electric vehicles. Costa Ricans are buying electric vehicles at 3 times the rate of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/b...

Really we all should root for a Knicks-Sixers playoff series every year because it’s one of the few matchups where the teams commute back and forth via chartered Amtrak trains instead of chartered flights. Tons of C02 emissions saved (Sixers boarding train pics from 2024)